He made every effort to shake off this new Besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
At times he would struggle up and recover himself, and appears generally to have been able to secure a position, but again and again his Besetment overcame him, and each time he would drift lower and lower.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
The man's abiding obsession-if we may call his Besetment thus-changed in practically all essential regards the manners and the practices of his daily life.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
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